A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does not present itself as something absolutely new in an informational vacuum, but predisposes its audience to a very specific kind of reception by announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics,... Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War - Page 14by Charles McNelis - 2007Limited preview - About this book
| Thomas Kent - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 194 pages
...Hirsch nonetheless share very similar views about the importance of generic perception. Jauss explains: A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions. It awakens memories of that which was already read, brings... | |
| Marco De Marinis - Literary Criticism & Collections - 1993 - 290 pages
...system of forms the effect produced by a specific work on a certain audience." According to Jauss: A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions. . . . The psychic process in the reception of a text is, in... | |
| Deborah Parker - History - 1993 - 272 pages
...pilgrimage to God—to name but a few notable literary and patristic models. The Comedy did not appear in "an informational vacuum, but predisposes its audience...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions."" Thus, although the poem presented numerous interpretive challenges—in... | |
| Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 256 pages
...work addresses itself to what Hans Robert Jauss calls the horizon of expectation of the reader. It 'predisposes its audience to a very specific kind...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions.'3 From its first pages it arouses expectations which can then... | |
| Michael Ann Holly - Art - 1996 - 236 pages
...which I have been concerned here can be glimpsed from Jauss's position of methodological hindsight: A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions. . . . The psychic process in the reception of a text is, in... | |
| Antony H. Harrison - History - 1998 - 212 pages
...art" of poetry, worried that she was "in danger of being spoiled by overambition" (4:375). Thus, as Jauss observes, "A literary work, even when it appears...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or ... allusions. It awakens memories of that which was already read, [and] brings... | |
| Ronald Clark Harvey - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 232 pages
...an act of reading, one can see how the horizon reflexively shapes/is shaped by the act of reading: A literary work, even when it appears to be new, does...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions. It awakens memories of that which was already read, brings... | |
| Nancy M. Bradbury - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 270 pages
...ultimate locus for determining genre, and uhus prepares the way for Jauss's argument that a given work "predisposes its audience to a very specific kind...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions" (23). The "horizons of expectation" thus aroused constitute... | |
| Mark S. Morrisson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 300 pages
...to understanding the reception of the English Review: as Hans Robert Jauss argues, the literary work "predisposes its audience to a very specific kind...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions" (23)." A literary magazine is a text whose reception and creation... | |
| Jon Lewis - Performing Arts - 2001 - 395 pages
...insight into the way studios manipulate what Hans Robert Jauss calls the "horizon of expectations," which "predisposes its audience to a very specific kind...announcements, overt and covert signals, familiar characteristics, or implicit allusions."8 What is especially revealing about the promotional material... | |
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